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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What price does Franfurter say he selling the Pulchinella to Utz for?
(a) A Communist's price.
(b) A friend's price.
(c) A Jewish price.
(d) A cheap price.

2. What does Utz believe porcelain is the antidote to?
(a) Depression.
(b) Decay.
(c) Racism.
(d) Tiredness.

3. What did Bottger develop in 1708?
(a) Blue porcelain.
(b) Gold chains.
(c) Red porcelain.
(d) Bone china.

4. What does the narrator feel in the young people they pass?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Depression.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Freedom.

5. What does Utz say is one of life's pleasures?
(a) A woman's happiness.
(b) Natural food.
(c) Business trade.
(d) Children's laughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece does Utz tell the narrator he smuggled into Czechslovakia?

2. What room does the narrator ask to see?

3. What city does Utz say he sleeps soundly in?

4. What does the mood in Prague seem in comparison to the Soviet Union?

5. What was Bottger's grandfather's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Utz want to go back to Prague?

2. Describe the porcelain figure Dr. Franfurter sells Utz.

3. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

4. Why did people think gold could save one from death?

5. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

6. Why does Marta bang pots together?

7. What does the narrator see in Utz's bedroom?

8. Why does Utz think porcelain was the Chinese people's material?

9. How did Bottger allow Augustus the strong to open the first commercial porcelain factory in 1710?

10. Why did the makers call the white porcelain porcelain?

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